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1440 onions

Tue, Mar 16, 2010Mon, Mar 15, 2010
1440 onions

I’m sure I’ve taken this photo before, but somehow, it’s still new—the first transplants of the season! This is the look of 1,440 onions, starting out. These are 72-cell plug sheets, and the plan is to multi-plant four onions in …

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Categories Seed starting, Tools, Veggies

Seedlings away!

Thu, May 15, 2008Sat, May 10, 2008

Things can change suddenly on the tiny farm. I picked today to move the majority of seedlings to the greenhouse. Although this was MUCH later than hoped for earlier this year, it’s all about the (recently COLD) weather, and I …

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Categories Greenhouse, Seed starting, Tools, Veggies, Weather

Seed starting tools II

Fri, Mar 21, 2008Mon, Feb 25, 2008

Here are ALL the indoor seed starting tools I have, most of them always-used, a couple not. Nothing special, and FINGERS I’ve found are handiest for most of the work at this scale. In any case, a few details (and …

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Categories Seed starting, Tools

My old friend the min-max thermometer

Sun, Feb 24, 2008Fri, Feb 22, 2008

Clearing a path to the hoophouse today, I turned the corner and noticed the original min-max thermometer. I don’t usually. It was one of the first bits of gear acquired in Year 1, when the reality of FROST in the …

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Categories Fieldwork, Greenhouse

Getting started

Tue, May 07, 2013Tue, Jan 29, 2008

Started the first seeds of the year today: lettuce and arugula. At night, the grow racks remind me of a lab experiment, with the plugsheets in trays, carefully labelled and sheathed in plastic under the intense white light (fluorescents up …

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Categories Seed starting, Veggies
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